Becareful when selling your Merc..

[ringway]

Have you tried it? It's really hard.

I'm not that sort of girl.

Depending on circumstances, I would probably prefer a struggle inside the car.

Done that a few times, though. Well worth it in the end.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

I once sold a Vivaro at 11pm to two meat heads from Middlesbrough.

One of them took it for a test drive while the other sat in my kitchen with a warm cup of Horlicks, came back and paid me for the van no bother.

Just goes to show; never judge a book by its cover...

 

[ringway]

Chocolate fudge!

Undeterred.

 

[ccp]

Similar experience for me when I sold my Smart car a while back - the guy was really keen to see it before anyone else. He turned up, I took him for a drive and then he paid me nearly double my part-ex offer:bannana:

Really easy - in hindsight though I was probably a little naive with the keys when letting him drive it, but, who would steal a Smart Car?

 

[whitemercedes]

I will be alot more cautious when selling my w204

 

[John]

I once sold a Vivaro at 11pm to two meat heads from Middlesbrough.

One of them took it for a test drive while the other sat in my kitchen with a warm cup of Horlicks, came back and paid me for the van no bother.

Just goes to show; never judge a book by its cover...

A healthy distrust is good though - of everyone. Without judging them - you had a 50/50 chance of that going wrong probably. Seems to be luck that something doesn't happen.

I remember when I sold my third car (Astra GTE 16v). Guy phoned up and asked to come and see it. 4 blokes turned up, one (the heavy!) was about 6'5" and looked like the Notorious BIG. Normally only one bloke turns up so I was a little suspicious that 4 blokes turned up.

They took it for a drive, asked me if I'd ever thrashed it when cold and whether it was on finance - and then went on to buy it.

That was December 1996 and I noticed from the DVLA site a few years ago that the tax was up for expiry about 6 months later (early 1997) - so I presume in the car park in the sky.